http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/magazine/graphics/logo.png http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/culture/ian-martin/ian-martins-speech-at-the-launch-of-the-coalition-chronicles/8621744.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/culture/ian-martin/ian-martins-speech-at-the-launch-of-the-coalition-chronicles/8621744.article I’m 58 years old and standing on a chair…I love a crowd when I don’t know many people. It’s more exciting. Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:29 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/culture/top-10facebook-groups/1325798.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/culture/top-10facebook-groups/1325798.article 1. Robin Hood Gardens Hedge Fund Investors2. Baggy Urban Zoomorphs Rule3. Pre-Modernism Rocks The House4. Olympics - Yay!5. Second Home Self-Builders With Attitude6. We've Been To Siena And Sketched In A Straw Hat7. Architects and Planners for Justice in Pimlico8. Absorbing The Gherkin9. Freemasons Facebook Lodge10. I Studied For Seven Years So Why The Fuck Do I Earn Less Than A Vet? Wed, 7 May 2008 11:09 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/culture/top-10client-complaints/1308336.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/culture/top-10client-complaints/1308336.article 1. 'Finished building looks smaller than in original daydream'2. 'Architect not wearing traditional frock coat'3. 'Houseguests less glamorous than in brochure'4. 'Now we've moved in, turns out to be in wrong part of country'5. 'Wanted double Georgian garage not lecture on aesthetics'6. 'Cost overrun very dramatic but with no clear narrative'7. 'Channel 4 uninterested, despite huge financial outlay'8. 'Thought contextual restraint meant yachting wire or somethin Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:02 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/culture/top-10london-smells/1229168.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/culture/top-10london-smells/1229168.article 1. Incontinental Europe.2. Atomised milky coffee.3. Conservative pheromones.4. Tubed human meatloaf.5. Kerosene with herbal essences.6. Wafting, melancholy gastropub.7. Guilty fag breath.8. Concessionary chip fat.9. Blocked fear.10. Simmering line managers enthused with garlic. Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:20 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/culture/top-10architectural-jellies/1145614.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/culture/top-10architectural-jellies/1145614.article 1. Miniature Millennium Bridge.2. Sydney harbour, with wafers.3. Recession-moulded City of London.4. Wobbling New Delhi.5. Green jelly earth with bitter fondant eulogy.6. Tower of Trifle.7. Model City of Bath in aspic.8. Royal jelly Poundbury.9. Saudi Arabian lubricating jelly airbase.10. Naked Will Alsop moulded by Lucian Freud. Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:52 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/culture/top-10eco-towns/1099430.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/culture/top-10eco-towns/1099430.article 1. High Purberley2. Greenham Conyers3. Sustainby Neuterall4. Glazing-upon-Glazing5. Burbish6. Spralling7. Greywater Butts8. Compellinghampton9. Reuseable Bagshot10. Smugby. Wed, 9 Apr 2008 19:07 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/culture/top-10richard-rogers-lordly-gripes/1051539.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/culture/top-10richard-rogers-lordly-gripes/1051539.article 1. Urban Task Force still ignored despite rhetoric.2. Terminal 5 now carrying too much cultural baggage.3. Suburbia remains ghastly...4. ...AND in breach of recent Guardian article guidelines.5. Food today too fast.6. Planners today too slow.7. Too few pompous shits at heart of decision-making.8. New communities developing sense of place, belonging and identity despite incorrect design.9. Nowhere civilised enough in Thames Gateway to have lunch.10. Tue, 1 Apr 2008 15:38 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/culture/top-10items-on-frank-gehrys-to-do-list/1008194.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/culture/top-10items-on-frank-gehrys-to-do-list/1008194.article 1. Print out rendering of new office block.2. Take printout to Hall of Mirrors, photograph reflection.3. Feed crazy distorted image back into aeronautical design program, hit the 'make this happen' button.4. Print out new rendering, send to client with invoice.5. Punch LA Times critic in face.6. Fix 'seemingly random' meeting with Russian oligarch.7. Identify appropriate ass in Hove.8. Kick ass all the way to goddam Brighton.9. Articulate 'chaotic' inte Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:09 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/top-tenkevin-mccloud-moments/965037.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/top-tenkevin-mccloud-moments/965037.article 1. Sceptical frown in beanie. 2. Quizzical pout in hard hat. 3. Chuckling at timetable. 4. Conspiratorial whispering in deserted Italian kitchen. 5. Facial paralysis after saying 'gosh'. 6. Squinting at recalcitrant German roof. 7. Caressing seasoned oak beam with faraway gaze. 8. Shimmy of head as 'spontaneous thought' occurs. 9. Sighing, forgetting to breathe in again, passing out. 10. Asking 'but will it...work?' then getting hit in face by plank. Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:19 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/top-tenyoutube-clips/910266.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/top-tenyoutube-clips/910266.article 1. Igloos melting to a poignant soundtrack.2. Menacing Russian cartoon featuring dancing skyscrapers.3. Armed charrette at University of Pennsylvania.4. Wind turbines apparently chatting to each other in Swedish.5. Original World Trade Center under reconstruction in Second Life.6. Man being eaten by interactive carpet.7. Freak weather battering the Scottish coast, then deep-frying it.8. Homeless people dancing for soup in Poundbury.9. Frank Gehry in a leat Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:57 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/culture/top-10gay-spaces/865261.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/culture/top-10gay-spaces/865261.article 1. The William Morris Pink House. 2. Senior Consenting Room, Fingersmiths College. 3. The Dancing Bear prosthetic nightclub, Soho. 4. Lawrence of Arabia suite with walk-in closet, Burj Dubai. 5. Sub-prime non-dom housing, Queens, NYC. 6. Rufus Wainwright's dressing room. 7. Dorothy Cottage, Wordsworth, Cumbria. 8. Anything indoors in Brighton. 9. Pre-booked pod on The London Queer Eye.10. Your scrupulously tidy study. Wed, 5 Mar 2008 12:44 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/top-10pencils/833469.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/top-10pencils/833469.article 1. The Graphito by Banksy & Banksy.2. Stubby Lines' Doodlebug Pro.3. Suzuki left-handed mechanical in B Minor.4. The Böring Seminar Bullet Point.5. Zaha Stiletto Space Probe 3000.6. Fair Trade natural unpainted cedar pencil with pretend carbon.7. The 2B Hamlet Soliloquy.8. The Blairwrite Memo with sneery, retractable point.9. Tarantino HB 5mm with smooth-barelled fixed eraser and ass-cap popper.10. Wooden stylus dipped in own blood. Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:34 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/culture/top-10designer-toilets/755762.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/culture/top-10designer-toilets/755762.article 1. The Herzog and de Meuron close-coupled Europan.2. Wayne Hemingway's Flush Hurry.3. The Renzo Piano Urban Macerator.4. Studio Libeskind Biomass Exodus.5. Ceramic Shitpod on tubular steel legs by Will Alsop.6. Norman Foster's Effluvium Overlord.7. The Vitrinius Vitruvio Latin Commodium by Quinlan Terry.8. Converted K8 phone box at bottom of garden.9. The Calatrava Cable-Stayed Passing Place.10. Personal reed bed. Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:11 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/top-10architectural-styles/728542.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/top-10architectural-styles/728542.article 1. Clinically Depressed Gothic.2. Defibrillated Constructivism.3. Neo-Semi-Classical.4. High Definition Plasmic Blobulism.5. Retrohyperventilated Freestyle.6. Arts and Crafts and Photoshop.7. Decarbonised Metabolism.8. Fucking Enormous.9. Evangelical Pointyism.10. Butch Colonial Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:43 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/culture/top-10-angel-of-the-south-ideas/589951.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/culture/top-10-angel-of-the-south-ideas/589951.article 1. Cast-iron Ken Livingstone with his arms out as if to say 'it's not my fault'.2. Global warming thermometer protruding from a pair of buttocks representing Essex and Kent.3. Huge plasma screen showing highlights of the 1966 World Cup final.4. Big pointless metal thing by Tonkin Liu with an infantile name e.g Boingy Woingy Wobbly Bobbly Snivelly Drivelly Frollocky Bollocky Blinging Frigging Thing Plus Vat.5. Overscaled reproduction of the empty Trafalgar Square plinth. Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:24 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/top-10hats-for-architects/571858.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/top-10hats-for-architects/571858.article 1. Rain-harvesting sombrero.2. The BlackBeret Highbrowser.3. Visor in form of miniature concrete brise-soleil.4. False turban containing 50 Gigabytes of extra memory.5. The Shigeru Ban emergency cardboard cocktail hat.6. Photovoltaic yarmulke.7. Tricorne made from locally-sourced Observer Business & Media section.8. Adobe mudflat deerstalker, with mudflaps.9. The Frank Gehry Biretta 2.0 - 'Designed by computers, irritated with style'.10. Double-ski Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:23 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/top-10green-status-symbols/529230.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/top-10green-status-symbols/529230.article 1. Garden wormery modelled on the Unité d'Habitation.2. Bamboo-framed 'intelligent' spectacles.3. Weekend minimalist cottage with climate-healing properties.4. Trevor Baylis wind-up slide projector.5. A smirking eco-blog called something like Environmentality, chronicling your whimsical journey through a dictionary of quotations.6. Hydrogen-powered bicycle with unisex handlebars.7. Misconceived concept drawings composter.8. A Brazilian foster-sapling im Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:27 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/top-10neologisms/478927.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/top-10neologisms/478927.article 1. CO3. A volatile gas produced by filtering 'carbon dioxide issues' through a windbag.2. Alchitect. A blurred visionary.3. Afforwardable. Type of low-cost housing that is conceived in situ, then permanently deferred.4. 'McCloud'. A forceful sigh, exhaled before conceding that something might just work.5. Platitudinum. Recycled material used as a covering for cultural landmarks.6. Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:27 GMT